Apparently the same thing happened to Roberts back in ’93 and he just carried on from there. Since the docs didn’t understand it then and don’t now, they’re calling it idiopathic. I wish the best for him (and I wish the bet health for Stevens, Ginsberg, etc too).

As for the thinly veiled hatred from the Left:

1. It’s not all Lefties, tho it does represent an unfortunately large consituency.

2. As with all such hate, it mostly reflects the speakers’ own feelings about themselves; neurotic bunch, aren’t they?

Im sure you were equally outraged at Ann Coulter and Pat Robertson suggesting the same thing, right?

Maybe I missed that post.

You did. I have railed about Ann Coulter on this site in many posts, including the one where she talked about poisoning Justice Stevens’s creme brulee. You missed it because you didn’t even bother to search for it. You just smugly assumed the post doesn’t exist.

I wasn’t kidding when I said they project their self-hatred onto others. I think it’s the root of pretty much all their attitudes, which is why debating policy on its merits with them is a waste of time: You seek knowledge; they seek redemption.

I’m sure you were equally outraged at Ann Coulter and Pat Robertson suggesting the same thing, right?

Other than the fact that I have not heard either AC or PR wishing for the death of Roberts, I get what you’re going for here. What you are implying is that anyone, on this site, who denounces the Wonkette blog is, somehow, a hypocrite.

And that, my friend, is the problem with our public discourse these days. I hate the term, but it’s something you’ll understand, hate speech is hate speech is hate speech. Whether it’s uttered by jerks and morons on the right or left, it still shouldn’t have a place in any part of a rational discourse. Yet, questions such as the one you ask appear to be a defense of hate speech that you may agree with (at least it seems that way).

When something is wrong, it’s wrong. It isn’t less wrong because that braying jackass AC spreads her special brand of bile around. And it isn’t less wrong because Pat Robertson opens mouth and inserts foot every once in a while.

Simple fact: it’s all wrong, and I, for one, am quite sick of it. This type of talk is a refuge for the intellectually lazy, the chronically stupid.

yah, Patterico, if that is ur real name! Answer
blu texas! Answer for every f*cking thing p Robertson has ever said! You are such an obvious and cheap LIAR by not! Oh man, I’m tellin ya, clearly BlewTexas is your intellectual supior(*), give up!
((*) mis-spelled on porpoise, or “purpose” if you are one of those anti-wet mammal rightwing assmaster jackalopes…)

Seizures aren’t that big of a deal. They have some really good medication for them now. Most the time they never find the cause of seizures. I began having them when I was 8 months pregnant. No reason found for them. 9 Years later I still have the occasional seizure in my sleep, which is a big improvement over having one while driving.

Nah, Patterico isn’t responsible for all those RW utterances responsible, but he is obligated to announce his feelings on each and every utterance. I mean we see that on everyone else’s site: the standard “how I feel about what everyone else said today” section.

But for the record, I’ll make a $5 wager that Patrick has more posts lamenting Coulter comments than Blue Texan has regarding Michael Moore, Streisand or “Mother” Sheehan. Heck, BT probably disses Coulter less, if you don’t count boogeymen mentions.

Every one of you waxing indignant over wonkette’s comment … do yourself a favor and google “wonkette” first. You’re taking something seriously that describes itself as “A blend of gossip and satire and things the author makes up.” Wikipedia will inform you of wonkette being known for “repeated references to gin and anal sex.” It’s slightly more serious than the Onion, and that comparison is being charitable to wonkette. If you don’t know what the Onion is either, then look that one up also.

You can always wander over to Kos and find some random commenter to froth about. Go on. You know you want to.

… and some reports state he was foaming at the mouth shortly there after: Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., a seasonal resident of Hupper Island, located off Port Clyde, was taken to Penobscot Bay Medical Center in Rockport mid-day…

“It’s not all Lefties, tho it does represent an unfortunately large consituency.”

Try this: Stand up to extreme hate speech when you find it on a lefty blog. (I mean a truly lefty blog, the sort Kos would endorse, not a centrist-liberal site like Dean’s World.) Note how many people stand up to support your point of view, or your right to have same. Now note how many shout you down and/or tell you to get lost.

Don’t know how many of the latter you’ll encounter, but the number of the former will be zero.

The first part: constant knee-jerk tu quoque replies. Anytime someone posts “Democrats did bad thing X,” their very first reaction is to immediately post “Well, Republicans once did bad thing Y.” Note that the reply doesn’t actually address the original charge – it’s just an elaborate “hey, look over there!” to disrupt the conversation. It also lets them pull out the deadly HYPOCRITE label.

The second part: absolute purity. A lefty will deny deny deny absolutely any accusation against their side until they’re blue in the face. Even the slightest flaw can never be admitted, lest a chink appear in their armor. If it’s something there’s just no way they can deny, then it either becomes “a right-wing conspiracy” or “a joke.”

#55
Do you really think that is correct? All one has to do in a roomful of Republicans to get a similar reaction is say something about a black-white issue..say “I think there is legitimate reasons why blacks are not in the party” and you will hear the litany of “Sharpton… Jackson… Tawana… Cosby..”

Each side has its reactionaries. The side that chooses to be self disciplined with these “rogue” elements will be the one the voters are more comfortable with.

It is really hilarious how the Left has devolved into a case study of projection syndrome. Observers can accurately track the belief systems of “Progressives” by just noting what they accuse their political opponents of believing and doing.

Come on Wonkette!
You must either be a member of the Ultra Conservative Right Wing Neo Con Christian Militia in denial or just plain ole not nice.
Roberts is a huge mistake in the supreme court along with Aleto, but wishing death on them is being like them.
Did you ever think this may be God’s way of sending Roberts a message.

Why am I not suprised at this typical display of left-wing “sensitivity?”

Nor am I suprised that the media is describing Chief Justice Roberts as the only one who’s “foaming at the mouth.” As opposed, that is, to Wankette or the Kos Kidz or the rest of the Democratic Party base.

Let’s hope that the DUmmies & the hatemongers disgrace themselves as stupidly as the female Wanker just did.

The Daily Kos will predictably have some wack-jobs saying the same sort of hate speech, and I hope someone calls the Dhimmi-crats on this when they kiss up to the Far Left next week at the Kos Konvention.

It Didn’t Take Long For The Left To Wish Death Upon Chief Justice John Roberts…

Patterico provided the link to this:
Chief Justice John Roberts has died in his summer home in Maine. No, not really, but we know you have your fingers crossed.
Here is the story behind his fall and I wish him a speedy recovery!

The discrimination I faced as an “epileptic” in the 1970s was much worse than either the symptoms or the treatments. That people think this is something to make a joke over … there are days I’m ashamed to be a member of the human race.

It would have been the fair thing to do, if you were going to quote this disgusting comment from Wonkette, to point out that this is the only well-known leftie blog that has wished for John Roberts’ death. As far as I know, from the liberal blogs I have seen so far since this story about Roberts broke, no one has said anything like what Wonkette did.

It truly would have been the right thing to do to point that out, rather than making it seem like Wonkette was representative of what other liberal blogs were saying.

But that, of course, is exactly why I am not in the least surprised that you did not do that.

The editors of this section of Wonkette are Anna Holmes , Jennifer Gerson and Moe Tkacik. Their bios are at: http://jezebel.com/gossip/welcome-wagon/meet-the-editors-261990.php Note their journalistic credentials. Good liberals all. Haven’t checked Open Secrets to see if they contributed to anyone but it might be a good place to check.

Link found on the same page at Wonkette (which by the way begins: “The Democrats are sad, ineffectual and weak — and they’re not going anywhere anytime soon.”)

“Richy-Rich Obama Confuses Iowa Working People With His Fancy Lettuce Talk”

Barry Hussein Obama is not like Regular Americans — you know, the 95% of Americans who aren’t wealthy, good looking, slim and fancy eaters. All the presidential candidates are pretty well off, except for bankrupt Mike Gravel and (allegedly) Joe Biden, so Obama shouldn’t get any special trouble for being a super rich Ivy League elitist … unless he brings it upon himself.
Campaigning in Iowa this weekend, Obama asked the crowd, “Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?”
He might as well have said, “Anybody here getting their hedge fund portfolios screwed by excessive exposure to these Collateralized Debt Obligations since Moody’s started rebranding Triple A’s?” Iowa doesn’t have a Whole Foods Market, not in the whole state. The cuisine of Iowa consists of Corn Dogs and “funnel cakes,” which are a kind of home-made grease donut rolled in sugar.”

Dude, have you ever heard of irony? Are you that fucking dim? Of course not. So on to more important issues…Bedtime for Gonzo

When Alberto R. Gonzales was asked during his January 2005 confirmation hearing whether the Bush administration would ever allow wiretapping of U.S. citizens without warrants, he initially dismissed the query as a “hypothetical situation.”
But when Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) pressed him further, Gonzales declared: “It is not the policy or the agenda of this president to authorize actions that would be in contravention of our criminal statutes.”
By then, however, the government had been conducting a secret wiretapping program for more than three years without court oversight, possibly in conflict with federal intelligence laws. Gonzales had personally defended the effort in fierce internal debates. Feingold later called his testimony that day “misleading and deeply troubling.”
The accusation that Gonzales has been deceptive in his public remarks has erupted this summer into a full-blown political crisis for the Bush administration, as the beleaguered attorney general struggles repeatedly to explain to Congress the removal of a batch of U.S. attorneys, the wiretapping program and other actions.
In each case, Gonzales has appeared to lawmakers to be shielding uncomfortable facts about the Bush administration’s conduct on sensitive matters. A series of misstatements and omissions has come to define his tenure at the helm of the Justice Department and is the central reason that lawmakers in both parties have been trying for months to push him out of his job.
Yet controversy over Gonzales’s candor about George W. Bush’s conduct or policies has actually dogged him for more than a decade, since he worked for Bush in Texas.

What is telling is the necessity of the left to use the invectives when making a response.F*ing this etc. Shows a lack of education and being termilogically deficit. Ann Coulter and Pat Robertson are their counter point, but I have never read either one wishing the opposition were dead. Isn’t that subtle difference lost on the left?

I’m so sick of both the left and the right pointing out each other’s hypocrisy. Can’t we all just get back to some real Christian values and just start turning the other cheek a little more (alot more!)? We are all Americans, we have much more important issues to discuss and these cute little solipsistic, ad hominem attacks you bloggers wage on each other are serving you readership no better than the mainstream media’s banality and bias are. Shape the heck up, we’re relying on you.

I don’t know what the problem is. You want Osama bin Laden dead, don’t you? If you say so, you’re not accused of “hate speech,” merely a realistic worldview. John Roberts is in a position to harm a lot more Americans than Osama is and has shown an inclination to do it.

Further, considering a desire for some death has nothing to do with hate. I felt that way about my ailing father at the end of his illness. Even with enemies, it’s not necessarily about hate. I actually like a lot of things about John Roberts. His likely to be disasterous effect on our country is not one of them. I don’t hate him. I want him off the Supreme Court. You are guilty of lazy (or, more likely, dishonest) thinking.

actually, as the child of a holocaust survivor, i find the right’s sudden interest in (and appropriation of) “hate speech” obnoxious. Hating Dick Cheyney because he developed a wildly unsuccessful and deadly foreign policy is simply not the same thing as hating someone because of their race or religion. Put another way, it seems perfectly acceptable to me to hate Clarence Thomas because he’s an originalist; it’s not okay to hate him because he’s a black man. In practical terms, we all know that hating someone’s policies rarely leads to the same outcome as hating someone because of their identity.

So keep discussing civility in the blogosphere if you like. But lay off the casual use of the term “hate speech.”

remember something people…liberals live by double standards and are allowed to live by a different set of rules (ie. jefferson’s $90,000 cash filled freezer and he is still in office). The mainstream media will not hold liberals accountable.

As usual, Patterico engages in some out-of-context dishonesty in reporting this comment, failing to see it for what it was, a snark at a very few individuals on the far left who might actually wish this.

That’s par for the course for Patterico and nothing new.

Indeed, it doesn’t even make sense, since Bush would simply put another Roberts on the court, regardless of Democratic control – the Senate voted 78-22 in favor of his nomination.

Thus, to think that anyone on the left believes there is something to be gained by Roberts’ death, much less wishing it, is purposeful dishonesty by Patterico in order to paint the left as being for something they clearly have no motive in the first place to be for.

liberals live by double standards and are allowed to live by a different set of rules (ie. jefferson’s $90,000 cash filled freezer and he is still in office). The mainstream media will not hold liberals accountable.

What a nonsense. Democrats worked against Jefferson in the elections — both the party and DailyKos-like grassroots. Too bad he still got reelected. They would gladly kick him out, he’s an embarrassment and his district is safely Democratic anyway. And do you really mean to say that MSM gave Jefferson a pass?

Hating Dick Cheyney because he developed a wildly unsuccessful and deadly foreign policy is simply not the same thing as hating someone because of their race or religion. Put another way, it seems perfectly acceptable to me to hate Clarence Thomas because he’s an originalist; it’s not okay to hate him because he’s a black man.

It doesn’t matter what the motivation is. Those who hate act the same way no matter what their reason. You have to learn to disagree with someone’s foreign policy or constitutional viewpoint without resorting to hate.

The people who hated your parents were just as convinced that their hatred was justified.

The people who hated your parents were just as convinced that their hatred was justified.

Right. It wasn’t because they were Jews, mind you. It’s because they were greedy thieves who were destroying the German economy. They were bankers, moneychangers, usurers. They had to be rounded up and slaughtered to prevent them from doing harm to the Volk.

i disagree, fco. i think you dumb down the concept of “hate” to say that hating someone for a policy is the same as hating an identity. after all, one form is excercised in a voting booth, and another is excercised through violence. As a result, to say that all people who hate behave in the same way is disingenous. Or maybe this is just a semantic debate about what hatred means– I am not sure that it is always a negative, even in public discourse. Why can’t there be rational and irrational varieties of hate?

i think you dumb down the concept of “hate” to say that hating someone for a policy is the same as hating an identity. after all, one form is excercised in a voting booth, and another is excercised through violence. As a result, to say that all people who hate behave in the same way is disingenous.

And what is saying that all who hate because of identity do so through violence and that those who hate because of ideology (which is what you mean when you say policy) don’t? Other than completely, entirely, absolutely wrong?

Pablo, #114, how is the proposition that most Jews are “lefties” (and IIRC that is backed up by polling data) inconsistent with the fact that some are not?

Good question, Crust. How is the proposition that lefties have ultimately lethal social attitudes (and IIRC that is backed up by the history of every socialist regime ever) inconsistent with the fact that some do not?

BTW Blue, any chance you have enough principle to condem Wonkette without qualifiers? Typical liberal.

Hey, again, what should Wonkette be condemned for? For suggesting that its readers would be so vile as to want Justice Roberts dead?
Or do you want to condemn Wonkette for wishing Justic Roberts would die? Patterico’s post title is misleading — they did no such thing.
Also do you think he should condemn Wonkette claiming that John Kerry has joined cult, that Harry Reid is insane and Mike Gravel will kill again?

Hey, again, what should Wonkette be condemned for? For suggesting that its readers would be so vile as to want Justice Roberts dead?

No, for knowing they would by virtue of them being of the same mind. And for being truthy enough to say so. That is, they should be condemned for that by those who make a grand habit of condemning such things, like the Ellensurg-Wilsons.

Boy, the Wonkette thing stirred up a lot of heat and very little light–124 plus posts in a very short time.

I think the Wonkette blog was originally written by a young woman of the sort that gives “silly twits” a bad name. Very light in her intellectual loafers and vapid in the extreme.

If I’m not mistaken, when the original Wonkette left, her place was taken by a man or a couple of men. They continue in the previous glorious tradition. They manage to “channel” her voice in a pitch perfect fashion.

Was the Wonkette post in bad taste? Absolutely. The discussion should end there.

I’m sure you were equally outraged at Ann Coulter and Pat Robertson suggesting the same thing, right?

This is the “WAAAAH! Everbody ELSE gets away with it, why can’t WeEEEEeeEeEEEEeE???” defense. Entirely aside from the fact that “everybody else”doesn’t get away with it – examples have been provided of right-wing sites criticizing these two for similar statements – we are all morally responsible for our own actions; because someone ELSE says something shitty doesn’t give anyone a pass for saying something shitty. And anyone, regardless of ideology, can call them out on it.

You’re right, it doesn’t. The only difference is that I, in fact, don’t molest children and eat puppies, but Ann Coulter did call for killing of Justice Stevens.

Nikolay, since you have been so insistant that Wonkette’s message was a snark, and not meant seriously, would you be so kind as to post Miss Coulter’s words and tell us why Wonkette’s were just snarky humor, and Miss Coulter’s were a call for an assassination?

No, for knowing they would by virtue of them being of the same mind. And for being truthy enough to say so.

Oh sure, the gossip-mongers at Wonkette just spend days wishing that this guy would die.

That is, they should be condemned for that by those who make a grand habit of condemning such things, like the Ellensurg-Wilsons.

Greenwald’s response was provoked by O’Reilly’s crusade to “destroy” DailyKos, which is “just like the Nazis and KKK”. He doesn’t have a habit of going after “hate speech” just for diversion.
BTW, do you agree that DailyKos should be destroyed? Haven’t seen anything but cheers for this on rightosphere. But mostly it’s just crickets. But OMG Democrats are definitely going to shut down Rush Limbaugh!

Just wanted to let you know that I found a few choice comments from the HuffPo (and yes, this is after Arianna told Sean Hannity “If anybody wishes harm, or death, or any kind of harm to anyone, I will take it down”)

Oh sure, the gossip-mongers at Wonkette just spend days wishing that this guy would die.

What is the requisite, or shall we say maximum allowable amount of time to be spent expressing such desires?

Greenwald’s response was provoked by O’Reilly’s crusade to “destroy” DailyKos,

Gleen(s) have been playing this game for evah, while O’Reilly has been on his Kos jihad for a week or two. That’s like saying that 9/11 was retribution for taking Saddam out, though I realize chronology doesn’t hold much sway in leftyland.

BTW, do you agree that DailyKos should be destroyed?

No, I think it provides a valuable service and a great deal of entertainment. I also don’t believe it’s O’Reilly’s argument that it should be destroyed, only that people who want to be POTUS or otherwise be in the favor of sane people ought not be soiling themselves by associating with the not-yet-committed-to-mental-institutions.

Having changed the subject from a 1) hateful lefty wish for Roberts’s death to 2) a question whether I ever criticized similar comments by righties, Blue Texan got pwn3d by proof that I had. I then asked for examples of Greenwald (for whom he has guest-blogged, if I’m not mistaken) unreservedly criticizing lefty hate.

Cue the crickets!

Heck, I’d even settle for an example of such condemnation from the hackish Blue Texan himself. He’s the one who claims that denouncing hate speech from your own side is necessary to show integrity. I proved I have that integrity. Since he can’t possibly show that Greenwald has such integrity, can he show it about himself?

If she were to say it, out loud, we would be able to tell whether she was joking or chastising. Whether she was sympathetic or superior to her audience. Whether she was commending or berating. Whether she meant for them to feel bad or good. In writing, on wonkette? we’d have to look at how else wonkette interacts with their audience, what else they have written, to say.

Do you regularly read wonkette? how did you come to this one?

I’m sure it helps if “you” becomes “we.” But that doesn’t change that it is not.

It would depend on your relationship with your readers. You don’t sound like the sarcastic type. But I haven’t read you that much. Which is why I ask how much you read Wonkette.

Do you agree that there are ways of saying these words: “I know you wish him dead” that are not sympathetic? I think so. What if I wrote here “justice stevens has fallen, I know you wish him dead.” Those exact same words now have a different meaning than the one you want them to have, no?

I think those words can have several meanings. You picked one. One that requires that the word “you” mean “we.” And I don’t think you’ve made a good case for why your meaning is the one we should take.

Gleen(s) have been playing this game for evah, while O’Reilly has been on his Kos jihad for a week or two.

I haven’t read Greenwald’s complete works, but as far as I know, most of his posts on these subjects were in relation to similar stories, like when the rightosphere demanded that the left denounce some obscure crazy troll on Protein Wisdom.

only that people who want to be POTUS or otherwise be in the favor of sane people ought not be soiling themselves by associating with the not-yet-committed-to-mental-institutions.

Do you think that Republicans that want to be POTUS should stop talking to Hannity and Limbaugh? The picture mocking Lieberman that was supposed to “finish DailyKos” — you can find dozens of similar pictures on Limbaugh’s site.

In what way was it ignorant? I said “just because you never read about something doesn’t mean it didn’t happen”. Is it wrong? Do you claim that only things that you’ve read about exist?
You are right to say that “the fact that I’ve not read about it doesn’t prove you’re not a child molester”. Theoretically it is possible, though not highly possible — child molesters don’t frequently hang around political blogs. On the other hand, Coulter frequently says outrageous things — such as wishing her opponents would die. “I’ve never heard about that” is not a good way to prove that Coulter didn’t wish this particular person would die.

You’re asking for Blue Texan to find someone else’s voice, which is a bit unfair, don’t you think? But be that as it may…

I’m confused as to how Greenwald criticizing the left for hate speech gives him any more credibility than if Greenwald didn’t.

After all, if I’m an expert in marine biology, no one would expect me to know specifics of avian biology, except to observe that some principles cross over. Presumably, Greenwald believes the same thing, but his focus is on the right, not the left.

What drivel! Why hope for what is inevitable for all of us? I suppose that IS easier than Wonkette or her ilk attempting to actually come up with an intellectually honest rebuttal to any of Roberts’ legal opinions. I sentence Wonkette to a lifetime incarceration on the East Coast. [shudder] Now back to my excellent luncheon of carnitas.

So now it’s Hannity and Limbaugh? Why not throw Chris Wallace in and make it a trifecta? And while you’re at it, I’d like those goalposts on the 3500 Block of Wilshire, if you don’t mind.

Did Chris Wallace write a book equating terrorism with liberalism?

Who said “finish DailyKos”

OK, it was phrased: “the final nail comes on Monday”.

and where are the links for those pictures on Limbaugh’s website?

You can only see the current content on his site, so I can’t give a link to a lot of nasty pictures I’ve seen there. But check out this nice Osama picture. And to think that MoveOn is still being fried for a video comparing Bush to Hitler that was submitted by a user and quickly removed!

And where are the Republican candidates sucking up to him?

What do you mean by “sucking up to him”? Guiliani goes on his show regularly. Same for Bush and Cheney. (Or are you out of bounds once elected?)

Hate speech for me, but not for thee, or something along those lines. It is a felony and torture to flush a Koran, but speculating as to the death of a Supreme Court Justice, President, and Vice President is just fine. Black is white. Up is down.

OK, so you have no problems with pictures painting Bush in Hitler’s likeness? There are some correlations there as well, you know. Or would you say that Osama is just not really evil compared to Hitler?
And here’s a picture that was to be the final nail for DailyKos. Would you claim that Osama picture is mild compared to that? Are you freaking kidding?

I denounce Greenwald’s failure to denounce the gibberish posted by Andy Sullivan, the inanity posted by alphie, and the malicious lies posted at Wonkette. Until all on the Left denounce this, we will have to assume that they approve of same.

A stupid rude picture is worse than the one that calls majority party a party of terrorists.

No, it called Osama a Democrat, as opposed to depicting a sitting United States Senator of their own party blowing the President. Seriously, with your complete and total obtuseness, you’re not worth talking to.

No, it called Osama a Democrat, as opposed to depicting a sitting United States Senator of their own party blowing the President.

And sex is so much worse than murdering thousands of people.
OK, here’s a perfect inoffensive image for you: a scene a-la Triumph of the Will with thousands Nazis saluting Bush. It would not be claiming that Bush is like Hitler, merely that Nazis are good Republicans.

I’d say they’re well beyond publishing the officer’s name, which is indeed on the complaint, Christoph.

Some of the better comments Malkin has linked to:

#194 faraway

Ask Det Khan why he considers himself an American Muslim? Does he consider the Caliphate or Bush/Pelosi as his leader?

#334 Ron(Ron)

Faisal Khan: A big part of the problem.

re: #306 zombie

Do you have a counterpart operative in NYC? The next monthly meeting of the American Muslim Law Enforcement Officers Association (AMLEOA) is tonight, JULY 30, 2007. At 6:00 PM. Vicinity of Masjid Dawaud. At Hadramout Restaurant, Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, New York.

anonymous is a tool, Patterico. This is a bastardized version of Ellers McElleson’s trick of calling on people to denounce something that someone else said. In this case, the cowardly anonymous takes it one step further, and complains about the degree of condemnation. Pathetic. I still think it is Blue Texan.

I didn’t see anything in the links you provided that requires me to provide a forum for your cowardly and fact-challenged rants. Now that I have provided the link that makes you look even stupider, I invite you to get lost.

Blue Texan/Instaputz was a miserable failure as a guest blogger for Greenwald. It was clear he didn’t know his material and was not accustomed to writing for an audience that was not merely an echo chamber. He is definitely a few sandwiches short of a picnic to begin with and it was childs play to eat his lunch. Just check out the awesome depth and quality of his comment section.

It is a felony and torture to flush a Koran, but speculating as to the death of a Supreme Court Justice, President, and Vice President is just fine

Both are offensive and rude. Both are legal acts which participation in which suggests that one is unable to engage in civil political debate. Both are behaviors which, I think, call into question one’s adulthood.

One of the finest men I knew was a gay veteran. His mother got Alzheimers and he worked twelve hours a day to have home-care for her when he could have put her on public aid and a nursing home which would have killed her within six months. His worthless siblings did not lift a finger to help. He was killed in a car accident (after his mother had finally passed away). His worthless siblings did not allow his “boyfriend” to attend the funeral (Illinois). I oppose DADT and support same-sex marriage.

Hey, this is pretty cool. All I have to do is mention Blue Texan in a comment (I wouldn’t waste my front page on this crap) and it shows up on his blog.

It’s like having a ventriloquist dummy — except that this dummy is dumber than your average dummy.

HEY INSTAPUTZ READERS! LISTEN UP! I want to provide an example of what a dishonest individual it is who writes the Instaputz blog.

He asked me if I was equally outraged when Ann Coulter and Pat Robertson made comments about Supreme Court Justices. In fact, he snidely assumed that I hadn’t said anything about either. Then he looked like a total idiot when I shoved that right back in his face, and he has spent days trying to recover.

Because, you see, I did express outrage when Ann Coulter made similar comments. And I have consistently criticized her on this blog. I have ranted against her here, here, here, here, here, and here.

As for Robertson, when Blue Texan/Instaputz asked me about him, I said:

I didn’t know about Robertson’s quote and you have provided no link. If he has said anything similar I’m happy to denounce it; I consider him a fool anyway.

Now look how your honest Instaputz characterized my answer:

I know it sucks for you Putzerico, but the only answer to my question, “I’m sure you were equally outraged at Ann Coulter and Pat Robertson suggesting the same thing, right?” is: no.

No lies. No trying to do anything. A simple yes or no question. Everyone can read. And it was a big no. Thus exposing your outrage as the phony variety.

Instaputz is a huge liar. I have expressed outrage at Coulter and think Robertson is an idiot whom I would denounce in a second. Instaputz just flat-out lies about my reaction. Because he is a lying liar who lies.

i personally am only hoping for the death of patterico.
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Further down the thread, Instaputz objects to . . . the guy who wished death upon me? No: he read that comment and approved heartily. Instead, he objected to something sensible said by the Baseball Crank.

Instaputz: proud keeper of comments wishing death on others.

Naturally none of this will mean anything to the idiot crowd who reads him, but it’s still fun to know that everything I just said will show up on his front page in the next 24 hours.

Now go be a good boy and publish this on your blog. Here’s a treat. Good dog.

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